Elaine Ferguson

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PhD Topic

An analysis of the Scots legal framework for the preventative detention of 'dangerous' offenders.

Supervisors 

Professor James Chalmers
Professor Fiona Leverick

 

Biography

Elaine first joined the School of Law as an undergraduate in 2008 having completed a Higher National Diploma in Legal Services at City of Glasgow College. During the LLB, she developed interests in criminal law and mental health law. Her PhD, which concerns Scotland’s approach to the preventive detention of ‘dangerous’ offenders, combines these interests.

Research Interests

  • Criminal Law & Procedure
  • Medical Law
  • Mental Health & Incapacity Law

Teaching

Undergraduate
  • Criminal Law and Evidence (tutor)
  • University Access Course, Law Module (tutor)
Past teaching experience
  • Jurisprudence (tutor)

Awards

Lord Kissen Memorial Prize for Forensic Medicine (2010)